Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenAI

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn't waiting (theregister.com)
Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.
Copyright, Generative AI, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Issues
7 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 2 comments
Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models.
Generative AI, Copyright, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics
4 points by desertmonad 10 hours ago | 0 comments
Sam Altman's Firing from OpenAI (msn.com)
On a balmy mid-November evening in 2023, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel threw a birthday party for his husband at YESS, an avant-garde Japanese restaurant located in a century-old converted bank building in Los Angeles’s Arts District. Seated next to him was his friend Sam Altman.
OpenAI, Leadership, Technology, Business
21 points by smu 19 hours ago | 7 comments
OpenAI Academy (openai.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Education
5 points by taytus 2 days ago | 0 comments
The Strategy Behind MCP (medium.com)
Model Context Protocol (MCP), first defined by Anthropic, is surfing a wave of enthusiasm right now. MCP has, incredibly quickly, become a de-facto standard for integration with LLMs. OpenAI’s announcement of support for MCP in the last week of March 2025 essentially confirms this position. New announcements of MCP support are emerging on an almost hourly basis.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Standards
3 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 0 comments
MCP: The new "USB-C for AI" that's bringing fierce rivals together (arstechnica.com)
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Technology, Competition
37 points by CharlesW 3 days ago | 6 comments
OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B (cnbc.com)
OpenAI, Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Valuation, Startups
51 points by rvz 3 days ago | 12 comments
OpenAI's Ghibli frenzy took a dark turn real fast (businessinsider.com)
From meme madness to copyright concerns, the release of OpenAI's new image generator this week has been nothing short of dramatic.
Generative AI, OpenAI, Copyright, Memes, Art
7 points by bentobean 7 days ago | 2 comments
In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel (npr.org)
OpenAI, the company behind generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, announced Thursday that it had taken down influence operations tied to Russia, China and Iran.
Generative AI, OpenAI, Geopolitics, Social Media, Disinformation
7 points by Teever 7 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI just made it harder to turn your pics into Studio Ghibli-style images (aol.com)
OpenAI has blocked some users' requests for Studio Ghibli-style images.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Image Generation, Studio Ghibli
5 points by g42gregory 7 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI Close to Finalizing Its $40B SoftBank-Led Funding (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp. — with investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management in talks to participate, according to people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI, Funding, Investment, Venture Capital, Technology
17 points by saeedjabbar 8 days ago | 16 comments
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK (openai.github.io)
OpenAI, Agents SDK, Generative AI
806 points by gronky_ 8 days ago | 265 comments
OpenAI Is Adopting MCP (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
OpenAI, Twitter, Artificial Intelligence
7 points by gronky_ 8 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Vibe HTTP – AI generated HTTP responses (github.com/kevmo314)
A tiny HTTP server that passes the HTTP request to OpenAI's ChatGPT API and returns the response.
Show HN, HTTP, AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT
9 points by kevmo314 9 days ago | 0 comments
DeepSeek-V3 runs at 20 tokens/s on Mac Studio, and that's a nightmare for OpenAI (venturebeat.com)
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has quietly released a new large language model that’s already sending ripples through the artificial intelligence industry — not just for its capabilities, but for how it’s being deployed.
Artificial Intelligence, Competition, OpenAI, China
8 points by benocodes 10 days ago | 2 comments
Hitts.cc – Advanced Text to Speech with GPT-4o Mini TTS (hitts.cc)
Experience the most advanced Text to Speech technology powered by OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4o mini TTS model. Generate human-like voices for your content in seconds.
AI, GPT-4, OpenAI, Software
6 points by marytaylor 11 days ago | 6 comments
A Deep Dive into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling (a16z.com)
Since OpenAI released function calling in 2023, I’ve been thinking about what it would take to unlock an ecosystem of agent and tool use.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Tools, OpenAI
5 points by amrrs 12 days ago | 1 comments
Google's two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI (wired.com)
A hundred days. That was how long Google was giving Sissie Hsiao.
Google, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Competition, Technology
43 points by dominik 13 days ago | 0 comments
Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI (wired.com)
A hundred days. That was how long Google was giving Sissie Hsiao.
Generative AI, Google, OpenAI, Technology, Competition
188 points by totaldude87 13 days ago | 201 comments
Show HN: AgentKit – JavaScript Alternative to OpenAI Agents SDK with Native MCP (github.com/inngest)
Build multi-agent networks in TypeScript with deterministic routing and rich tooling via MCP.
JavaScript, OpenAI, AI, Agents, TypeScript
64 points by tonyhb 14 days ago | 15 comments
OpenAI Audio Models (openai.fm)
OpenAI, Audio Models
661 points by KuzeyAbi 14 days ago | 296 comments
Show HN: SpongeCake – open-source SDK for OpenAI computer use agents (github.com/aditya-nadkarni)
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, SDK, OpenAI
13 points by theonlyt3 14 days ago | 7 comments
The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI Realtime WebRTC API (webrtchacks.com)
OpenAI using WebRTC in its Realtime API is obviously exciting to us here at webrtcHacks. Fippo and I were doing some blackboxing of this based on a quick sample the day of the WebRTC announcement so we could look at it in webrtc-internals and Wireshark. Some weeks later, my daughter was interested in using ChatGPT voice mode. That reminded me of the many old cardboard Google AIY Voice Kits I made with her.
OpenAI, WebRTC, Real-time APIs, AI, Programming
53 points by feross 17 days ago | 3 comments
Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development (arstechnica.com)
Google says it just wants "balanced" copyright rules.
Google, OpenAI, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, AI
15 points by BerislavLopac 20 days ago | 3 comments
OpenAI considers DeepSeek "state-controlled" (techcrunch.com)
In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations.
Generative AI, OpenAI, China, Artificial Intelligence, Politics
8 points by 01-_- 21 days ago | 2 comments
OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans (techcrunch.com)
In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations.
Artificial Intelligence, China, Government Regulation, OpenAI
32 points by amrrs 21 days ago | 4 comments
OpenAI Nonprofit Buyout: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.com)
Last month, I put out a request for experts to help me understand the details of OpenAI’s forprofit buyout. The following comes from someone who has looked into the situation in depth but is not an insider. Mistakes are mine alone.
OpenAI, Nonprofits, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Analysis
7 points by feross 22 days ago | 0 comments
Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Reverse engineering, OpenAI, Programming Languages, C, JavaScript
289 points by benswerd 22 days ago | 73 comments
Nvidia-backed AI firm signs $12B AI cloud deal with OpenAI (techinasia.com)
Nvidia, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Business
7 points by protik49 24 days ago | 0 comments
Microsoft's Relationship with OpenAI Is Not Looking Good (gizmodo.com)
We are receiving more evidence that Microsoft is looking to split with OpenAI. A new report from The Information says Microsoft is developing its own in-house reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and has been testing models from Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek to replace ChatGPT in Copilot, its AI bot for the workplace.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Business
88 points by djhu9 25 days ago | 64 comments